High Expectations

I agree with you if this film had come out ten years ago it would be viewed with awe I think the film is amazing and don't see why it is being slated whatever happened to just watching a movie and enjoying it for that

I really liked it even though I can see what's 'wrong' with it. My answer to the problems is 'so?' Plot holes? I suppose Alien has none *ahem* Bad dialogue? Alien doesn't have much and what it has is hardly Shakespeare etc

the 1st time you see ...it will be " oh yess now it happen that ...oh now this ...now there should be ..yes ...then ??" ...its not a relaxed view ...the 2nd time is REALLY a excellent movie ..with some flaws but an excellent movie . and you know what ? it will be better at home ..relaxed on the sofa ...watching and analyzing every scene in peace .

its amazing even now. Go see it in 3d just for the colors and depth of field possible with new technology. the observant will notice how Ridley even invents subtle new defocus techniques to make dealing with all the extra info in 3d easier. He basically does what he does best. Increases the visual intensity possible with current technology, while retaining a high art sensibility and consideration for how the brain can process this, along with human information and an eye on the reality of human small and large group politics (as he did in gladiator). Anybody notice how the way the characters compete just for that chance to get one question to ask the other race( a useless move anyway) says a lot about human behavior ? and you want him to be the master science fiction writer with the secrets to everything in the universe and our future at the same time, when even our best scientists are having problems predicting the future in 20 years from now ?

But as the cost of films goes up IMO (and visual effects are a massive part of this) in general the quality of the film, originality and degree to which studios will take risk on unknowns goes down. Look at all the prequels and reboots. If you had to recoup $140m of whatever for Prometheus to break even, I would imagine this might compromise creative decisions in one way or another. It simply has to appeal to the masses. This is why instead of new original scripts we get shite like remakes of Total Recall.

Thats true! When i was a child, there was ONE movie in the week, on saturdays 8.15pm. You can imagine how HUNGRY we were for this movie on TV .. no matter what it was. Today, 40 years later, you have ALL kind of movies in ALL POSSIBLE AND UNPOSSIBLE variations, so it gets HARDER AND HARDER AND HARDER to satisfy the audience as there is nothing new under the sun. I see nowadays the trend a. to really dumb/stupid movies, like battleship or transformers. cant remember a scifi movie to be THAT dumb, for people who really dont want to think anything and eat just popcorn to fill their head. But why not, its a question of taste, some people just want stereotypes (the hero, the big-tit-girl, the monster, the scared man..) so they dont have to think and simply enjoy. Real scifi fans love FOOD FOR THE BRAIN, new ideas, new looks. food. b. recycle stuff till death. each and every story ever told will be told again and again and again. The hunger for "new ideas and stories" is so big that it cannot be satisfied. Thats why they live nowadays from prequels/sequels/remakes to fill the gap. The age of original storytellers maybe gone _ or the audience/filmindustry is to hungry and all possible variations of stories have already been told, its really hard to do something NEW, without using ideas from older movies and stories..

I agree that in the past our expectations were much lower then now, but... If we suggest that technological development should provide us more advanced excitement then we are missing something, I suppose... While CPU's speed increases we are still the same mortals or even more lazy and unproductive than before. The movies are more and more visual, but unfortunately have less or even nothing to manifest or announce. There's no psychological stimulation in them anymore. This is the main and maybe the only disadvantage of Prometheus - it's shallow as the puddle. And we had reason to expect something more - the movie was directed by Ridley Scott. Maybe this is an influence of Hollywood, maybe only the age issue. I'm disappointed to the bone. There's no tension in the whole movie. The movie sucks and in someway defecates on the Alien's (the first and the only!) heritage. Shame on you, Mr.Scott.

The whole expectation thing needs to be taken out of the equation. You're right the film should be judged based on what it does itself. Which means we must take out possible sequels from the equation too. Saying that things "may" be explained later on down the line simply won't do. The high expectations were raised by Ridley Scott's marketing of the movie, it's Alien 1979 like trailer, it's viral marketing and not just fans. We didn't raise them just ourselves. So it's completely fair to call it a let-down. Check out the review on [url=http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/21531/prometheus-review]denofgeek.com[/url] for a great description of this. People who say that those frustrated with the film simply wanted to be spoonfed are being unfair. We want to be fed. We want meat and content something to dig our teeth into. Prometheus offers us a great, big, beautiful painting of a turkey dinner.